SPRING
The Four Seasons (is a group of four violin concertos by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. Spring borrows patterns from a sinfonia in the first act of Vivaldi’s contemporaneous opera Il Giustino. Vivaldi represented flowing creeks, singing birds of different species, a shepherd and his barking dog.
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FIGARO
The Marriage of Figaro is an commedia per musica in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. The opera’s libretto is based on the stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro. The Marriage of Figaro is described as being “one of the supreme masterpieces of operatic comedy, whose rich sense of humanity shines out of Mozart’s miraculous score”.
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FORTUNA
“O Fortuna” was set to music by German composer Carl Orff as the opening and closing movement of his cantata Carmina Burana. Orff’s setting of the poem has influenced and been used in many other works and has been performed by numerous classical music ensembles and popular artists. It can be heard in numerous films and has become a staple in popular culture, setting the mood for dramatic situations. “O Fortuna” topped The People’s Classical Chart in 2009 as the most-played classical music of the previous 75 years in the United Kingdom.
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WINTER
The Four Seasons (is a group of four violin concertos by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. The high tone in winter concerto is associated with ice-cold wind, freezing weather. If the snow painfully hitting one’s face during a blizzard could sound -Vivaldi’s Winter would be its sound. This melody is a representation of fast movement, rush, a natural process so powerful that it cannot be controlled by a human.
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SERENADE
One day, while returning to the city, German composer Franz Schubert and his friends find a friend named Tieze sitting at a table in a garden. Schubert was impressed by this scene, interrupted his travels and went to see his friend Tieze reading a book. When he took the book and read a poem from it, he was very impressed and said, “If I had a sheet of music, I would write a melody as beautiful as this poem.” Another friend quickly turns the back of a bill paper and quickly draws the musical notes. Schubert also puts the inspiration that comes at that moment on paper and writes his famous serenade, which has been the interpreter of the most lyrical loves for years.
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CARMEN
Carmen is an opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. It is set in southern Spain and tells the story of the downfall of Don José, a naïve soldier who is seduced by the wiles of the fiery gypsy Carmen. The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875.
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DAPHNE
Daphne is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss, subtitled “Bucolic Tragedy in One Act”. The opera is based loosely on the mythological figure Daphne from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and includes elements taken from The Bacchae by Euripides. Apollo is passionately drawn to Daphne, though she will not totally surrender to him. Apollo askes to love her in the ennobled form of a laurel tree. He vanishes, she tries to follow, but is rooted to the ground as her transformation begins, until finally her silvery disembodied voice is heard above the shimmering leaves.
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